On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 03:06:55PM +1100, luv-main wrote: > https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20220310/ > > "Thanks to a tweet > <https://twitter.com/AaronToponce/status/1501973596532461594> by Aaron > Toponce <https://twitter.com/AaronToponce> I learned about the Linux > |/dev/full| pseudo-device. Write system calls to it always fail with a > |ENOSPC| (no space on device) error. With it finding software that doesn???t > check for failed writes is a piece of cake. ..." > > This reminds me of a journal article from the 80s about the fragility of > commercial Unix to unexpected input ... around the CrashMe times I think. > > Also of Stewart Smith's wisdom > > I see /dev/full on both Cygwin & Linux as mentioned in the blog post.
Reading /dev/full provides a stream of NUL chars (same as /dev/zero) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
